Thank you so much. I tried lyx 3.6.0 first as I need it and can always use Twinkle (which I don't much like) rather than the repository version of linphone (3.5.2-which I don't much like, but less).

Lyx 3.6.0 loaded fine and opened files fine, with a big exception: It says that the document class "article" requires "external files that are not available." Now the article class is the main lyx class and comes with the repository's version of tetex. However, after much experimentation, about 6 months ago I decided that texlive, huge though it is, is better than the much smaller tetex, so I removed tetex and installed (selectively) texlive.

The way texlive works is that when lyx says it can't find a document class, I run:

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cd /home/johwhi/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux

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./tlmgr gui

which opens up the texlive internet window and, from there, I download the missing document class.

I tried to do this just now (tried to load the default texlive repository so I can download "article,") but I get the following error:

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Loading of remote database failed.Error message:The Tex Live versions supported by the repository (2013-2013)do not include the version of the local installation.(2012).

I will stop here. I don't know much about texlive. Perhaps it hasn't yet adapted to the new lyx. But I write because it might be that somehow you could rather easily change the date of your version of 3.6.0 from 2012 to 2013. If so, texlive might find the right default repository. I will be looking into this further as, if there isn't an easy fix, I will have to find lyx version 2.0.5.1 and reload that.

concerning linphone, I installed via the VL repository and last night, using installpkg.

I don't recall how I installed texlive. I will look and get back to you. I know I did not download the whole thing, but did it piecemeal. That's why, I think, I had to keep downloading specific document types. It worked well with lyx.

You should add the untested repository and install via slapt-get or gslapt. That will allow each package to install the necessary deps. Doing it via installpkg completely bypasses the dep resolution process.

I did that (loaded the unstable repository and then both programs via gslapt).

It didn't change anything re the lyx install, so my comments, above, are still appropriate.

It did change linphone significantly and now linphone 3.6.0 almost loads. Here is what I get:

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johwhi:$ linphone** Message: Found lang C/usr/share/themes/MurrinaBlue/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:83: Murrine configuration option "scrollbar_color" is no longer supported and will be ignored./usr/share/themes/MurrinaBlue/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:83: Murrine configuration option "hilight_ratio" will be deprecated in future releases. Please use "highlight_shade" instead.ALSA lib conf.c:4630:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0ALSA lib control.c:882:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:0ALSA lib conf.c:4630:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 1ALSA lib control.c:882:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:1The program 'linphone' received an X Window System error.This probably reflects a bug in the program.The error was 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)'. (Details: serial 34 error_code 10 request_code 153 minor_code 26) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)vector:/~

linphone-3.6.0 should be available at the testing repo now...what I would do is...remove linphone-3.6.0 via gslapt...and reinstall linphone-3.6.0 via gslapt again...make sure the testing repo is enabled...remember to clear the gslapt's cache first and update before reinstall linphone

I did all those things. Deleted 3.6.0 from the repositories. logged out to clear cache. logged in and enabled testing in gslapt. Then installed linphone 3.6.0.

This time the gui flashed on screen but then went away, leaving the same "badaccess" message:

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vector:/~johwhi:$ linphone** Message: Found lang C/usr/share/themes/MurrinaBlue/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:83: Murrine configuration option "scrollbar_color" is no longer supported and will be ignored./usr/share/themes/MurrinaBlue/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:83: Murrine configuration option "hilight_ratio" will be deprecated in future releases. Please use "highlight_shade" instead.ALSA lib conf.c:4630:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0ALSA lib control.c:882:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:0ALSA lib conf.c:4630:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 1ALSA lib control.c:882:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:1The program 'linphone' received an X Window System error.This probably reflects a bug in the program.The error was 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)'. (Details: serial 34 error_code 10 request_code 153 minor_code 26) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

The lyx error was my fault as your email correctly notes. I had simply (and stupidly) neglected to reconfigure lyx 2.06 after installing it (lyx has always had a "reconfigure" button). It now works perfectly.

Thanks!

In case of interest, my texlive files, before and after loading lyx 2.0.6, are at /home/johwhi/texlive and /home/johwhi/.texlive2012. Don't know if that's the right place but since it works as is, I plan to leave them there. I will let you know if I run into problems.

BTW, after working with texlive for several months now, I find it much more powerful than tetex. It is pretty slick.